Artists highlighting the dangers of covert 1001 of the worlds most crowded places. So the original heart of the battle against great a virus is marking a significant breakthrough just over 3 months ago china reported its 1st death from the illness now it says its gone 10 days in a row without any fatalities the government in beijing says its detecting mostly imported cases and almost no local transmission of the virus out of 12 new cases reported on saturday 11 were brought in from overseas despite a ban on foreign nationals imposed late last month that has been a continuous trickle of cases in chinese nationals returning home at lets join sarah clarke in hong kong and sarah said pretty much all of the very few cases that were seeing it coming in from the outside. Well the main placer the main focus now where chinas looking at is the north of the country this is an area a province that borders russia known as the hailing jang province and this is where saying the largest number of important cases and as you mentioned there are 12 new cases reported by the National Health commission on saturday and 11 of those were imported and this particular province have put in place a number of border checkpoints as well as border controls have got mantric testing of crown of ice for all those arrivals and these are the chinese nationals coming from russia back in to china but as you mentioned its a big milestone on the ground weve got no new death thats a 10 day in a row where they havent reported a death coming out of china weve also got theyve actually helped mission chief hes helling chinas efforts in their treatment of the crowd of ours cases in particular the outbreak its describing it what hes describing as a decisive victory and he says its treatment chinas treatment this particular outbreak is internationally advanced and hes also said hes ready to share with the world chinas experience and its handing this case to try to help those who are currently in the midst of the outbreak elsewhere a good thing is theres been a lot of people expressing doubt about chinas transparency from the of can we trust these figures. Well certainly theres been a lot of questions about the transparency as was the modeling and in particular they are the figures whether or not these figures are correct now earlier this week we had a paper that was published in the lancet a scientific journal and it was written by a group of scientists at the Health Department public Health Department at the Hong Kong University and they questioned chinas numbers and their modeling and they said that more than 232000 people might have been infected in chinas 1st wave of this particular crowd of us outbreak that this is actually 4 times higher than the what china actually officially reported china said on february 5th they said 55000 cases of the crowd a virus infection were reported in more than in the early days now the latest number of cases we have coming out of china weve got 83000 cases of infection of course thats very low when you compare them to the lights of the United States and parts of europe and a number of countries are also pushing for an investigation into the origin of the crime the virus in china and a number of countries including the United Kingdom has also ringback decided to drop comparing this thing is to china simply because they simply cant trust the figures being released on a daily basis from chinas National Health commission interesting or its early birth moment thats the picture from kong or a clock on the situation china. Well they bring china is getting back in business shops cafes and restaurants across vietnam are reopening as it eases restrictions on movements the country has been praised for successfully containing coronavirus its reported 300 cases with no deaths and no new cases for a week i did quickly by putting tens of thousands of people in quarantine and using Contact Tracing and testing yet even out of the. Vietnam strategy in the fight against covert 19 was remote and it focused on early prevention before the pandemic vietnam quickly contained the virus and stopped it from spreading to other communities on top of that the government and the ministry of health employed measures including isolation and medical treatment. More cautionary note out of asia especially as countries around the world debates when to relax lockdown restrictions and island wide curfew has been reimposed in sri lanka until monday the earliest because of another who takes it stretches how he reacts and what were considered low risk areas outside the capital colombo there are 420. 00 cases interlink and 7 people have died. And as joins us now from the capital of colombo in this different aspects to how theyre dealing with this im sure one can. Tell us more. Thats right nic essentially what happened over the last 48 hours or longer has seen a spike in the number of confirmed cases that have been detected and this basically led to the authorities rethinking the issue of curfew and weve got basically the curfew in place throughout the island right through the weekend until early monday morning so far we did hear from the Police Spokesman that the authorities the Health Authorities and everybody concerned all consulting right now given the recent spike in the number of cases and they are trying to make a decision about the best way forward regarding the curfew now in majority of districts around the country the state of course you had been eased during the day essentially from the beginning of the week what happened was at 5 oclock in the morning the curfew was lifted and basically people went about their business and because he was only placed it towards the night every single day since monday whereas colombo the capital as well as for districts identified as hydrous discreet have not had the curfew lifted literally for a month i think just behind me you see a sort of a busy columbus suburb gago to essentially deserted the one little bit of activity you can probably see of my shoulder is a Police Barricade run by specially Police Task Force officers who are stopping at random vehicles to make sure everybody who is on the road and is going about actually has a valid reason to do so and a valid curfew pass so thats the way things stand right generally the numbers all low 120 g. B. That is represented. So fine term the fear lankas case i guess even with this pandemic even one case is too many. But you lanka has been relatively lucky in that when you look at other parts of the world so far 420 cases now the testing has been ratcheted up the number of tests being carried out were hearing from the authorities has been increased in recent days still according to certain medical professionals they are calling for more stringent testing move widespread testing and there is a sort of a work in progress in terms of increasing the number of tests being carried out now so far the confirmed number of cases at 420 is something that many people discuss they think that things are being sort of controlled fairly tightly like we were talking about the sort of island wide curfew has its very strict the police the police the 3 armed forces on the streets like i said the barricade behind me and this has helped bring the numbers down but particularly with this hike in the number that weve seen over the last 2 days there is concern that we might see numbers going up but the hope is that it will remain under control nic. Thanks very much indeed you know the numbers. Perus interior minister has been replaced as it struggles to fight the pandemic as they call us miranda admitted to 1300 members of the police had tested positive for this great young with the scale of you know medical workers demanding better pay and more protective gear has reported more than 20000 cases in 634. In brazil the Justice Minister has quit accusing the president jaya both sonora of criminal meddling in Law Enforcement so as you more or step down off the boats and are in fired the federal police chief plunging brazils the government further into disarray the president says United Nations are baseless im a republican and this report that i met you on the phone with the shot to fame fighting corruption but on friday morning set your model resigned as brazils Justice Minister on Live Television he accused president jade pulled so not of political meddling in matters of Law Enforcement when he fired federal police chief. The day before his mission unfortunately there is no way for me to fulfill the commitment i made if im not able to do my job if im not able to preserve the autonomy of the federal police to carry out its work with Something Like i said to morrow is considered by many as a sort of anticorruption crusader and a superstar among president joey bull so not as captain in 2014 more of a federal judge at the time was appointed to the biggest political corruption investigation in brazils history a case that led to the arrests of hundreds of politicians and business elites. The investigation code named current which would also lead to the fall of brazilian president dilma rousseff. And the arrest of former brazilian president received naseer to lead a c but. Prior to his resignation said tomatoes role as brazilian Justice Minister was seen by many as almost symbolic some political analysts believe those departure could have the effect of dramatically overloading show you also not already do in dealing support base if you go. The shaken of the political structure in brazil is as acting almost the politicians the political analysts that markets are all. Ive ever seen freaking out about the resignation because several more was not they main dealers also some Irish Government in terms of. Animal if i guess corruption in brazil was really really strong part of really huge sector of residents. And they lost their you know to it so on and. On friday president defended himself against the accusations made by his outgoing minister mill problem you fool its my commitment is to the truth without distortions it is not true that i wanted to know about investigations he broke loose in the almost 16 months in which he was in charge of the minister of justice mr said hugh motor knows that i never sought him to interfere in the investigations that were being carried out will sort of sensible. Motos resignation comes just over a week after president bolsa not fired his Health Minister recently came and did the signaling there could be more political turmoil still to come over weve got a few bills a bill for most of us to let up a little. Well there is more current of our coverage just ahead on aljazeera including we refuse to die in jail anjan time inmates demand better protection from the pandemic. If something happens to someone we cant replace people some states begin to reopen is the u. S. Death toll passes 50000. Weve got some subtle changes taking place in the weather across europe at the moment its turning cooler now after a recent he wave in scandinavia will see a few showers to lehr across spain and portugal but not as widespread as they have been recently i mean losing that live the weather across greece pushing across the east side of the mediterranean the central pa yes at the moment is staying warm plenty of spring sunshine there savannah getting up to around 20 celsius on saturday afternoon cola there in london at around 17 degrees but some places of cloud and rain rolling into central parts of france and we got a scattering of showers there across parts of the Iberian Peninsula one of that lot of cloud of right up into that western side of russia is colder there in moscow as well with a top temperature of around 7 degrees celsius a similar temperature on sunday that rain will become a little more intense as we go on into sunday bright skies coming behind but it is said to have a fresh a feel to things as we go on through the 2nd half of the weekend still some showers into central southern parts of france down into spain and portugal that the showers just popping up a touch at this stage in some of the shallows they will cause run across northern parts of morocco say spent to see some wet weather here as you go on through sas day it will be heavy at times but its a fine dry and sunny across egypt. I easily test. And trace frank assessments its only struggling to cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind the curve informed opinion its going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where theres one play here very relieved people indepth analysis of the days global headlines india doesnt up to the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on aljazeera. But again youre watching out to remind of our top stories this hour and that china has gone 10 consecutive days without reporting any deaths from coronavirus a country thats widely believed to be the source of the Global Pandemic says it is now detecting mostly imported cases and almost no local transmission of the virus. An island wide curfew has been reimposed in sri lanka until monday at the earliest because of another surge in cases the restrictions have been relaxed in what were considered low risk areas outside the capital of colombo. Brazils Justice Minister has resigned accusing the present job of interfering in Law Enforcement earlier polson are have fired the federal police chief. Inmates at a prison in argentina demonstrations demanding more protection from 19 thats offering tested positive for the virus through the reports from outside the jail in one of us. They developed a prison in the city of when a site has taken over inmates. Hundreds of them on the rooftop of the only prison in the city. We need help we dont want to die here they said were not animals. One guard tested positive in the past week and prisoners say they fear for their lives water and electricity has been cut off. The prisoners say there are many who have chronic diseases and need to be put under house arrest prisons in argentina already have a history of overcrowding and lack of sanitation as in this one weve been seeing the prisoners throwing rocks and the Police Responding use or rubber bullets were also heard several explosions inside and rest has been on the rise in prisons in this country as inmates are fearful of the spread of covert 19. The inmates relatives came to show their support their loved ones released they tried to cross the cordoned area the police did not allow them to say of the never go visit my husband has a choice be and he should be at home right now theyre going to kill him and that. Was. A federal court in argentina recommended granting house arrest to prisoners convicted for nonviolent crimes or sentenced to less than 3 years behind bars due to the risks of coronavirus pandemic. The measure was questioned by relatives of crime victims this is not the only prison affected there are at least 8 others where inmates are on hunger strike. Coronavirus is a major test for government 11 america prisons are just one of the many challenges ahead. And just what a sight is the death toll in the United States has gone past 50000 in the worlds deadliest coated 90 not break the state of new york has the worst hit the governor there as well and reopening the economy to early in any american state will be dangerous if you say well were just in the house anymore lets just reopen just. Start business tomorrow lets go what happens thats what happens. All the progress we made is gone and all experts or virtually all experts will say not only does the virus spread increase but it increases to a higher point than we had increased the 1st time well unlike new york some states under Republican Leadership the Republican Leadership in the southern us easing restrictions and georgia businesses like gyms and has animals theyve reopened as despite warnings from the medical community and youve got to has this report. But the 313 store in marietta the doors are open for the 1st time in weeks following controversial guidance from the states governor nonessential businesses have been given the green light to get back to some kind of normal despite the continued threat of the coronavirus the owners here are taking employees back on a voluntary basis and making sure Health Checks are in place he says because that were using it for on 3rd street basically 3rd for shocking results and the letting all of our Service Workers know that there have been no problems and im sure any type of the. Hard hard think of that is the restrictions have been lifted on businesses like barbers gyms and tattoo parlors despite data from Health Experts advising the state not to reopen until at least the end of june restaurants are being given the go ahead to open on monday but many Business Owners remain skeptical even with gloves this this this virus stays on the gloves if its really not every last year because no one feels safe no one feels it is yeah i would think that you are not happy about brian camp President Donald Trump a staunch supporter of georgias republican Governor Brian Kemp disagrees with the move despite the loss of income many Business Owners say theyre not a quick to open the doors again our number one. Thought during this whole process is health and safety its not money because money wall eventual show up im a Firm Believer in that but if see if something happens to someone we can replace people in neighboring South Carolina 2 of the close contact businesses a cautiously reopening with the republican governors blessing here in florida precious also mounting this state to is run by a republican governor and some within his party want to see businesses open again all than a 1000000 people a file for unemployment here and Business Leaders are becoming increasingly vocal local for. Want to see parks and public spaces open by as early as next week the governor says any easing and restrictions should be done carefully and methodically a small but growing protest movement is adding to pressure an already beleaguered Southern States but as yet the science based data suggest patience is key and gallacher aljazeera. Well despite being the worst affected country on the planet the United States wont be part of an initiative launched by the World Health OrganizationGlobal Leaders have pledged to speed up development of a Coronavirus Vaccine and whats being hailed as a landmark collaboration on diplomatic editor james bays as this report its just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u. S. Leadership in a Global Crisis and World Leaders coming together with a response the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure all the widely available the world needs this to and it needs them fast. Past experiences has told us that even when tools are available they have been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen and what feedback we may deem require is the most message probably because efforts in history data must be shared Production Capacity prepared resources mobilize communities engaged and politics sites. I know we can do is i dont we can put people 1st and leaders spoke from all regions of the world technically bringing them all together was a bit of a challenge you know excellence you have can you hear me now yes yes we can hear you back in germany one of the 4 members of the g 7 a group of countries that were represented. Were now going to continue to mobilize all countries of the g 7 and the g 20 for them to back this initiative i hope that we will be able to reconcile the sinister of china and the us because the fight against covert 19 as a common good for humanity this shouldnt be any divisions between countries we need to join forces to win this battle the fact that the World Health Organization was the host of the event explains why the u. S. Didnt take part President Trump cut all new funding to the w. H. O. Because he claimed the Global Health body had not been tough enough on china the w. H. O. Failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable its a spokesperson for the u. S. Mission to the un in geneva where the w. H. O. Is based told al jazeera theyll be no u. S. Official participation we were informed of this event last week and we look forward to learning more about this initiative as soon as possible following this event the next phase will be led by the European Union in 10 days time theyll be trying to raise 8000000000. 00 to make sure that vaccines testing and treatment are available to everyone james pays out as era of the United Nations well lets hear from bob now hes a medical doctor and journalists and he says the disparities in Health Systems around the world are some of the most important issues to overcome in fighting covert 90. Or countries the 1st thing theyre going to need are ventilators some countries like kenya might have 4 or 5 ventilators i mean you need ventilators you protective gear all of the things the United States has been scrambling to get and the china began to scramble to get in early january you know unfortunately going to be tragically short and so much of africa once these medications and vaccines are produced in mass quantities you know usually the pharmaceutical companies are pretty good about getting them to those various countries but theres a mad world wide competition now companies and governments are sharing much more than they than they used to ordinarily would but clearly Certain Companies would want to be the winner in their strong ambling hard to get a vaccine when i was little we had polio and you know one morning youd wake up and there be somebody playing ball within a football field and then afternoon or evening theyd be in an iron lung and we waited with bated breath we really quite fearful for our lives for a vaccine then and there when he came with with the genesis of him with with save and of course was like the greatest relief the guru to us miracle of all time so i have great hopes but i really think that the therapeutics will pay off 1st in the vaccines probably are a whole year away this president has brought the end of his latest Creative Arts briefing without taking questions at donald trump raised the possibility of injecting disinfectant into patients officials received hundreds of calls about the claims and manufacturers doctors and agencies rushed out warnings against consuming disinfectant such as bleach now says he was being sarcastic. In the densely populated gaza strip a widespread outbreak of corona virus would be just devastating so far there are just 17 named cases but not everybody is taking the risk seriously so some local artists are painting mosques to encourage people to protect themselves and it has this report. These are to say danger is inching towards gaza and people need to take precautionary measures against covered 1000. 00. So far officials here insist guards are safe from Community Transmission and they want to keep it that way theyve shut down many aspects of life in one of the worlds most crowded places artists hope drawing on masks will encourage many to wear them in public and raise the level of alert officials havent asked the population to cover their faces yet but a growing number of people are. We want to draw a colorful happy and joyous shape so people will wear masks to help them as in fiction were giving them out free and some people are giving us their own masks to draw on but the difficult financial situation and increasing costs of masts and paint might and during the shift of. Weve saved some money and wanted to help those who are poor and out of work but we are facing a crisis now the prices of masks are increasing and they are running out of medicine. Another challenge is trying to convince people to take the issue seriously by Wearing Masks border advocates. If it wasnt for this project i wouldnt want the mosque in gaza were not used to Wearing Masks there are people who are too shy or dont want to look on. Still some clearly do not feel unsafe more than a dozen covered 1000 infections have been reported in the gaza strip its home to 2000000 People Living in close proximity. It has been under an israeli and egyptian blockade for over a decade that has weakened its Health System and palestinians fear they wont be able to cope with a disease that even britchka entries are struggling with. This means preventative measures including physical distancing are even more important. The police say with the weather getting warmer some are heading to the seaside as its one of the only places left to relax. Some say gazas relatively low number of infections is because its been cut off from the rest of the world for years but it also means that if the virus were to spread here it could have a devastating impact on its people. Thousands of people in australia and new zealand have marked their National Days of remembrance of soldiers lost in wars and peacekeeping operations. With both countries under the current of ours lockdowns closed services were held instead of the traditional and zach events which attract large crowds families were encouraged to stand at the end of their driveways to ensure social distancing the new zealand Prime Minister just in darden stood outside her official residence for a small ceremony today marks the 115 guilty plea landing in northern turkey by thousands of australian and usually troops died the turkish memorial was also canceled. It is a happy story a 99 year old military veteran has hit number one on the u. K. Singles chart for a charity song supporting the British Health service captain tom moore originally aimed to raise a 1000 dollars for Health Workers by walking 100. 00 laps of his garden instead hes raised nearly 37000000. 00 and the name of the song youll never walk away. So this is out there these are the top stories and china has gone 10 consecutive days without reporting any deaths from corona virus a country thats widely believed to be the source of the Global Pandemic says its now detecting mostly imported cases and almost no local transmission of the virus in Hong Kong Sarah Clarke says theres growing skepticism about the data coming out of china. Earlier this week we had a pipe that was published in the lancet a scientific journal and it was written by a group of scientists at the Health Department public Health Department at the Hong Kong University and they questioned chinas numbers and their modeling and they said that more than 232000 people might have been infected in chinas 1st wave of this particular crowd of us outbreak that this is actually 4 times higher than the what china actually officially reported china said on february 5th they said 55000 cases of the crowd a virus infection were ported in what had in the early days now the latest number of cases we have coming out of china weve got 83000. 00 cases of infection of course thats very low when you compare them to the lights of the United States and parts of europe. An island wide curfew has been reimposed in sri lanka until monday at the earliest because of another surge in cases of restrictions had be relaxed and what were considered low risk areas outside the capital colombo there are 420 cases in sri lanka and 7 people have died in brazil the Justice Minister has quit sic using president john bolton are of criminal meddling in Law Enforcement so should more of step down after bolton are fired the federal police chief the president says hes done nothing wrong perus interior minister has been replaced as it struggles to fight the pandemic colace moran has admitted to 1300 members of the police have tested positive for the virus is growing anger over the scale of the outbreak with medical workers demanding better pay and more protective gear. The u. S. President has abruptly ended his latest Coronavirus Briefing without taking questions the day earlier adulterant raised the possibility of injecting disinfectant into patients trump now says he was being sarcastic you know today the headlines got more news here right after inside story i feel. We understand the differences and similarities have cultures across the land. No matter. How to bring. Them current things that matter to. The wildlife trade under scrutiny the Global Pandemic has led to a debate on what markets where live animals are sold for food so should they be closed this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im burnitz scientists still trying to confirm the exact source of the new corona virus